Live theater performances with captions and other forms of access for people with disabilities are now listed in an online calendar on the website of the League of Chicago Theatres at chicagoplays.com/access. This calendar lists performances for people with both hearing and visual disabilities--captions, ASL interpretation, audio description and touch tours.

Ronnie Adler, co-chair of Chicago Walk4Hearing, announced that Millie Popovich of Ambush Hearing Loss team is the lucky winner of the $100 gift card to Target. The names of all Walk4Hearing participants who had signed up before the August 9th deadline were placed in a drawing for the gift card.

Ronnie Adler also announced that the Chicago Walk has raised $19,072 so far. That's great!

This month, July 2015 marks the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). In celebration of this landmark event, the Disability Visibility Project has partnered with StoryCorps to preserve disability history, one story at a time. Collected stories will be archived in the American Folklife Center of the Library of Congress.

StoryCorps will be recording stories July 2014 through July 2015 at three locations in the United States: San Francisco, Chicago, and Atlanta. To learn more about how you can participate in the StoryCorps Chicago interviews, please visit their website at http://storycorps.org/chicago/.

The Chicago Walk4Hearing kickoff meeting will take place Saturday, August 2, 2014 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Marcello's Lincoln Park, located at 645 W. North Ave., Chicago, IL.

The purpose of the kickoff is to gather confirmed and potential supporters of the Walk together, get them excited about the event, and get them motivated and ready to support it. Attendees will receive basic training materials on how to organize a team to participate in the Walk and to raise money for the Walk. Materials will include a Walk team captain instruction folder, posters, and brochures.

To RSVP, contact Robyn Wenger at Chicagowalk4hearing@gmail.com or 847-757-4848.

RSVP by July 25, 2014.

Update: Marsha Kopp will be the team captain for ALDA Chicago. Please contact her if you will be attending the kickoff meeting. Marsha's email address is mskopp@gmail.com.

Thinking about going to ALDAcon. but still undecided? Want to know what it's all about? Time is running out to save on the discount rate, which ends May 31st. Click on the following link to watch a video made by longtime ALDAn, Lori Messing. http://www.alda.org/aldacon-2014-imagine/

The board meeting originally scheduled for Saturday, February 1st was cancelled due to the weather. The meeting has been rescheduled for Saturday, February 8th at the same time and place - Orland Public Library from 1:00-3:00 p.m. At this meeting, officers of the board will be chosen.

Marsha Kopp, Marsha Swetin, and Fran Bowden have been elected to two year terms as trustees.

The current board of directors would like to thank all of our members who sent in votes and to welcome our newly elected board members.

The next board meeting will be held at Orland Park Public Library on Saturday, February 1st, 1:00-3:00 p.m. At this meeting officers of the board will be chosen. All ALDA Chicago members are invited to attend the meeting.